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between the said governments or between their subjects will be
that of rendering reciprocal service; to display to one another,
by an unalterable good-will, the mutual affection with which
each should be animated; to regard one another without excep-
tion as members of one and the same Christian nationality; the
three allied princes themselves only considering themselves as
delegated by Providence to govern three branches of one and
the same family, to wit:
Austria,
Prussia.,
Russia;
thus confessing that the Christian nation of which they and
their people form a part has really no other sovereign than Him
to whom alone supreme power belongs, because in Him alone
are contained all the treasures of love, of knowledge, and of
infinite wisdom, that is to say in God, our divine Saviour Jesus
Christ, the incarnate Word*
Their Majesties consequently recommend to their people with
the most earnest solicitude, as being the only means of enjoying
that peace that is born of a good conscience, and which alone
is lasting, daily to fortify themselves more and more in the
principles and practice of those duties which our divine Saviour
imposed on mankind.
Art. III. All the Powers that may wish solemnly to avow the
sacred principles by which this act is inspired, and that recognize
how important it is to the happiness of nations so long distracted
that in future these truths should exercise their due influence
over the destinies of man, will be received with much ardour
and affection into this Holy Alliance.
Signed in Paris in the year of grace 1815 the 14 (26) September.
(Signed) Francois.
Frederic-GuOlaume.
Alexandre.
The other sovereigns and statesmen had no very high opinion
of the Holy Alliance. It was decided that, while the affairs of
Europe should still be regulated by the Four-Power Alliance
inaugurated at Chaumont, Louis XVTTI should be allowed to
join the Holy Alliance, since its significance was religious and not
of this world. Mettemich's view, as he told Castlereagh, was that
Alexander's mind was affected; me Emperor Francis, taking this
view, thought it wiser to humour him by signing. The British